i was about to say “i haven’t drawn her yet” and then i realized the power i hold
Exquisite Analytic Oracle is an itty bitty Starmetal Caste who runs numbers, probabilty, and predictions for the Tripartate. starmetal was even rarer than usual when she was crafted, so her husk is made primarily of ivory, silver, and other precious materials, with starmetal lacing through them. she is studded with nodes of glass, silver, and inlaid with gemstones, which work as focusing lenses for a lot of her Charms. since her featureless opal eyes sometimes disconcert her mortal acolytes and coworkers, she usually swaths herself in an oversized cowl with the hood up. she basically lives in a deep underground bunker through a maze of tunnels, where she communes with the Maker and tries to guide her city safely through the night.
also while i’m at it i wrote a bunch of lines to use as a stunt in my Mirror Flag play if you might like to read them:
basically the play is the story of an upright Magistrate who loves the law, who has been pursuing the criminal mastermind Thorn-in-Roses across the country for years. (the Magistrate was originally a female character but Manus thought it would get the point across better if he played her so chose to change her gender over crossdressing on stage.) Thorn-in-Roses is wily, brilliant, manipulative, and intensely alluring to the Magistrate, who is just as much a criminal genius as she is, but spends his life suppressing his base urges to profit off others, devoting himself to keeping the law instead.
as Thorn-in-Roses dances through a glittering array of parties, robbing a glittering array of nobles, the Magistrate follows a few steps behind. the only way he can head her off in the end is by committing a spectacular crime himself; Thorn-in-Roses is captured, her ill-gotten gains seized and returned. the mastermind goes to her execution serenely, knowing that the Magistrate has done the one thing he swore to her, over the course of their long dance, that he would never do, and she leaves behind not a triumphant enemy but a partner in crime.
watching as Thorn-in-Roses is led to the block, the Magistrate muses alone:
since viri did homestuck on main here i am too in solidarity. just reused that same picture again since uh lazy
homestuck AU Manus is Mannus Ganimi, one of the youngest successful Legislacerators who’s still, you know, alive. he’s already lost one eye, but he saw that coming from the start, and his nascent powers as Mage of Doom helped him get a new one. he tends to be more legis than lacerator, and he’s trying to really embrace it like the ancestor he idolizes, but he knows it’s only so long he can put off the killing part. if only bureaucracy was a little less lethal…
i commissioned @haghusband for our Towersong three! and i fucking love it! early merry Christmas to @thebystanderman and @mr-mercutio, and also a merry Christmas to myself because who could only get two out of three of the squad
Lark of Clan Talon, the Burning Fist, is @thebystanderman‘s Dawn Caste Elmira Vido, Uhrgraf of Towersong and Witch-Queen of the North, is @mr-mercutio‘s Zenith Caste Ledaal Manus, Hand of the Uhrgraf and Horologist Prophet, is my Twilight Caste
Malfeas: thinking of wrapping my entire body in barbed wire and becoming Sovereign
Cecelyne: i just need to say, to anyone reading this.. You are Important, You are loved, and You belong in this world, if you have over 5000 followers
She Who Lives in Her Name: in the planning stages, for a new feature of my account which i have tentatively titled “ The Three Posts. ” more info coming soon of this.
Adorjan: am I the most dark & twisted psycho god online?? hm lets see:
– When the dow jones industrial average goes down i say simply the word “Good”
The Ebon Dragon: “jail isnt real,” i assure myself as i close my eyes and ram the hallmark gift shop with my shitty bronco
Kimbery: i regret being tasked the emotional burden of maintaining the final bastion of morality and NIce manners in this endless ocean of human SHIT
Szoreny: where do mirrors come from. if i stand in front of a mirror is my reflection also subject to the insurance mandate?? can i touch mirrors ?
Isidoros: Time to show these douscebags my real power (throws a big tree branch at a guys car)
Cytherea: my watch beeps whwich means its time to stand in front of my ex-wife’s house and play “Hit THe Road Jack” while dacning and licking her mail
Sacheverell: *all horrors begotten by the desire of man flash before eyes* woha! this is awkward *the cries of millions suffering echo* Damn That’s Weird
Hegra: in hell you are forced to smoke weed
Elloge: poor spelling is no longer tolerated on this log. this is an adult account now., and i will NOT lose this follow friday to tghe trolls .
Metagaos: strategically gathering recon on little seasers pizza in the woods behind the strip mall and getting fucking lyme disease
Qaf: using mindfulness. to waste my enemies
Gaia: fdreaming of that special moment when i can look into my wifes eyes and say “Thank you. Thank you for marrying me”
Autochthon: if any of oyu crude boys want to come after me *room lights up revealing collection of r/c helicopters behind my outspread arms* be my guestx
Manus: Oh yeah, Lark, there’s one more thing I want to ask you. Lark: What’s that? Manus: If in the future I ever say to you, “Oh, it was all a big misunderstanding, I talked it out with Savoy and it’s fine, we’re back together and it’s all alright now”, I want you to punch me in the face. Then tell me these words specifically- “Don’t go crawling back.”. That’ll get through to me. Lark: Uh- Manus: -Don’t punch me as hard as you can though. Definitely not. Just like a warning shot. Like how I’d punch. Lark: …I’ll try?
Manus actually has a pretty decent punch all things considered but he does not look like it, and anyhow Lark “Burning Fist” Talon is fuckin obviously Brawl Supernal so it really will never compare
A Quiet Respite 